Future Rewired

How we built a discovery and visualisation solution for AWS workloads

This session walked through how Matt designed and developed the Workload Discovery on AWS tool to help AWS users discover and visualise relationships between AWS services that make up their cloud workloads. Matt discussed the Workload Discovery on the AWS tool and what it does, its architecture, and key areas of scalability.

About Matt

Matt has recently returned to Guernsey after 3.5 years in the UK working as a Solutions Engineer at AWS. His main responsibility was helping AWS and its customers architect and develop cloud-based solutions. The most successful being Workload Discovery on AWS. He led this project from its inception and built it into one of the most popular AWS solutions to date. As you may have guessed he loves all things Cloud.

How to make sure you’re building the right thing

Dave took the audience through the process of building a solution and covered several tools to use to ensure you are building the correct solution for your client.

About Dave

Dave Wratten is a Senior Solutions Developer at Resolution IT, since joining the Business Solutions team, Dave has gained an MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer) accreditation, Azure Developer and DevOps Engineering Expert certifications as well as an Agile Project management qualification. His area of expertise is in the development of custom software and cloud solutions.

AI: Combining AAAAAAAAA and Intelligence

This session was an introduction to the foundations of AI, Patrizia covered key points:

• intelligence vs. rationality
• types of search algorithm
• searching for sudoku solutions playing games - naughts and crosses vs. chess

About Patrizia

Dr. Patrizia Kaye graduated from the University of Durham in 2008 with a Master's degree in Mathematics, having written her dissertation on machine learning and neural networks.

Patrizia began her professional career as a software engineer in the oil and gas industry, whilst simultaneously working towards a PhD in Computer Science, in which she developed new algorithms for 3D surface reconstruction and mesh alignment. She moved to Germany and joined part of Crytek GmbH, quickly taking the lead on revitalising their build and deployment systems and attempting to automate herself out of a job.

Having successfully done so, Patrizia moved to Schlafender Hase ("Sleeping Hare") GmbH, where she works on automated proofreading software for regulated industries, where she has learned more about barcodes than she
thought there was to know.

Patrizia has recently started studying for an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bath and spends her free time playing video games, board games, and learning languages (currently French).

What's your cover story?

Container Orchestration Overview

In this deep dive technical talk, Adrian walked through a what-why-how of containerised code and orchestration tools. Adrian shared a demo of building /running a container with docker, mapping drives and passing in environment variables. And a demo of a Kubernetes deployment/service/ingress configuration. He also created a helm chart from the Kubernetes config for passing in variables.

About Adrian

"I’m a software architect and developer with a professional goal to build high-quality maintainable products and solutions. I've been coding for over 20 years on a wide range of tech skills, from beautiful and functional websites to corporate applications and back-end services."

Zero Energy Buildings

We dove into the data behind Zero Energy Buildings, a concept about buildings that produce as much energy as they use through renewable energy and energy conservation. Jack Fletcher talked through how zero-energy buildings, renewable energy and data can help reverse climate change and provide energy security for our local community.

About Jack 

"Many of the biggest challenges we face as a society and as a global community arise from how we power our lives. That’s why energy has always interested me because the energy resources we use today define our very landscape tomorrow. I believe renewable energy has the potential to totally revolutionise how we live our lives and solve some of the biggest economical, geopolitical and environmental issues of our time.

Day to day I am invited into all sorts of homes big and small to help resolve their energy issues, it’s a passion and a mission. Having been a part of the micro-renewables industry since its early days, I have seen it rapidly evolve into the viable and burgeoning sector it is today. As the energy transition gathers pace there are many huge challenges to overcome to ensure a successful transition to renewables occurs and within the limited time frame given by climate scientists.

I see digital technologies as a hugely important solution to the transition’s hurdles and integral to the everyday running of our rapidly growing business. And at the centre of it all is people, we need highly-skilled, driven, talented people to join us with the same passion to change the world. Because after all, that’s what it’s all about."

2021 census records, born-digital from big data

This session took a an in-depth look at the 2021 census in Guernsey and Alderney, big data in the government context. Followed by a discussion about thinking ahead to the year 2121, when 2021 census records will become public records.

About Helen,

Helen is Head of the States’ Corporate Data & Analysis Service; the team responsible for providing the Island’s national statistics on topics such as population, employment, earnings and price inflation. Helen’s background qualifications include a BSc in Natural Sciences (Physics and Philosophy) from Durham University and various qualifications in project management, business analysis and data protection. Helen now has over 15 years of experience working in the field of national statistics. She has a particular interest in big data systems and a working knowledge of their advantages and limitations in this context.

 In her own time, Helen runs her own equestrian welfare driven business; fitting saddles to horses and riders, which is sometimes described as combining the science of biomechanics, the craft of saddlery and the art of telling when a horse is happy!